Well, that didn’t last very long. What a horrible weekend. It started badly, with a phone call from the surgery center where I’ll be having surgery tomorrow. The person on the phone informed me that the money I’ve already paid to the doctor only covered the doctor’s services, and I’d be expected to pay quite a bit more for the surgery center’s services as well as the anesthesiologist. It was kind of a devastating realization. The medical bills keep piling up, and I don’t know what to do about it.
On Friday, I had some people over to play games in the afternoon, and then in the evening my roommate and I made dinner for friends of ours who just had a baby a month ago. My sister was going out that evening, and said to call her when dinner was over so I could meet her for drinks/music, so I called, and texted, and although she kept telling me that they weren’t done with dinner yet, she never called me back. I felt so alone in the world. After having no one to spend Friday night with, and finding out about even more medical bills, I spent the entire day Saturday in bed. I spent most of the morning crying in bed, and the entire afternoon and evening watching tv and movies, working on amigurumi projects for my neice and nephew, and sneezing uncontrollably, because the first rain of the season actually made my allergies worse instead of better. I only got out of bed to go to the bathroom, get some food (which I ate in bed), and get a beer from the fridge (which I drank in bed). The only thing that really made me feel better was watching the new Star Trek movie. Again. That always cheers me up.
Sunday was a bit better. I spent the day at my sister’s house, having a nice pancake brunch and carving pumpkins. The part of the day that sucked was running around in the pumpkin patch in the rain (by myself, of course) trying to find some decent carving pumpkins from what was left, and especially trying to find some that weren’t too big, because I assumed that they were sold by weight. Alas, they were $2.99 each, and I should have just bought three giant ones from the small pile that was under the overhang, where I wouldn’t have gotten soaked.
And then this morning just takes the cake. My alarm didn’t go off for whatever reason (unless I managed to turn it off in my sleep), but luckily my roommate woke me up somehow by making noise outside. Then I found all my Tupperware from last week in my bike bag, which I apparently forgot to clean out over the weekend. Oops. So I hurried to throw some food together and completely forgot to eat breakfast. I left for work extremely late because I took the time to put my new headlight on my bike, but the beam was so weak that I might as well not have even had it. As I was pedaling as quickly as I could to work, my stomach started growling loudly, reminding me that I had forgotten breakfast. Then, while waiting at a stop sign for a bunch of cars to go by, most of whom were turning and not using their turn signals, I decided to go for it during a break in traffic. I stood up on my pedal to push and BAM my foot slipped off and I landed partly on the seat and partly on the top tube. Boy did that hurt. I did the best I could to get to work as quickly as possible when I discovered that I didn’t have my badge with me and I had absolutely no idea where it even was. So I had to lock my bike outside because my badge is what gets me into the bike cage, which meant I had to take the headlight off anyway. So much for using my time efficiently. Hopefully the rest of the day will go better, but I’m not expecting much at this point.
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